<skim033 <at> student.ucr.edu> writes:
>
> Hi, I am writing a function that includes 'sum' function
> such as:
> f<-function(x){
> c<-c(-1,0,1)
> f<-sum(c+x)
> }
> expecting f to be -1+x+0+x+1+x=3x. But I found out that f is
> sum(x). So, f is always a scalar, which means that f(c(0,1))
> is not a vector as c(0,3), but 3(0+1)=3. I would like to ask
> you helping me in solving this problem. I would like to
> thank you in advance.
Looks like you are infected from other programming languages where in a
function foo you must do a foo = ... to assign the return value. In R, this is
a no-no, giving some mind-twisting recursion. And don't use c as a variable
name. And parameters in sum() are comma separated, sum(c+x) is redundant.
f<-function(x){
c1 <- c(-1,0,1)
sum(c1,c1)
}
f(12)
Dieter
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